Ragnarok

yes i thought the same... i was going to go for it up to 350... won't be getting that one now.

Anyone know of any good 300lb anvils for sale for around

Thomas, I don't think it's been in a fire, the seller says he got it from the company that used to use it, and has had it ever since i guess it's posable but seems unlikely, to me anyway.

Matt, thanks for the tip I'll ask around a bit more if i don't get this one, and yeah hopefully I'll be able to make it down there 15th 16th isn't it?

thanks Ratel, not sure if I will go to see it or not, I may buy it and have it delivered and just hope that it's good, would probably save money as delivery to me should only be around

well no ones said anything bad about it on here so seems like it's probably good.
thanks for all the helpful replies everyone
Rune.

Thanks good info frosty, i may go up and see it but based on what i can see in the photos it looks good and you guys all seem to think it looks good too, it looks to have had a good amount of use and little ware as you say so that'd show it to be fairly good if you ask me.

Thanks alot GNJC much appreciated, I'm pretty sure it's not cast iron too, looks to high quality to me.

haha yes not too far when you think about it really but it does add around

I can't really go see it as it's 260miles away, the stand is metal, and it's about a 3ctw maybe 3 1/2ctw, seems fairly hard to find good anvils, i've been to the only good blacksmiths shop i know, and the guy said he gets offered anvils often but almost always in poor condition, and that it'd be worth buying a new one (a 3ctw would be

and found this one, any advice, do you guys think it looks like a good one?
the only think I'm worried about is it being a cast iron one really, although to me it looks like a steel faced forged iron one, you can just see the join line of the face if you look close in the pictures, the only thing that made me worried it was cast iron are what look like chips on one foot? been looking for a nice one for some time now.

let me know what you think
Rune

thanks for all the info, very useful, I really wanted blacksmith coal but I did realize that would be really hard to get, coke would be fine, what I got so far is house hold coal and it's in about 2-3" lumps, I was thinking about joining the blacksmiths guild and posably coming to the event too if I can make some time, sounds interesting.
I live in pembrokeshire near cardigan.
as for the charcoal forging I used free charcoal that I got from a local charcoal maker, and it was in small lumps probably part or the problem, how ever the coal mercent I got this house hold coal from seems cheap at

rmcpb, yeah I've been having a go at that when I put the forge out last night, I dumped a huge load of fresh coal in and blew it hard for awhile hopefully it'll have a big pile of coked up chunks in there now think I just have to mess about with the fire for a bit and get used to the coal

Mick, yeah seems very easy to get anthracite in any size you like, but not bituminus but oh well, have to take what we can get I guess.

however
John B, if you could give me a name and contact number for a supplier of blacksmiths coke in sounth wales it'd be much apreciated

thanks all
Rune

haha I can find coal.. just not the right type.. and only in big lumps, no one seems to have anything but anthracite in finer sizes and from what I've heard anthracite is no good for forging.. the coal I did get doesn't the blue flame just goes whiteish I did get a forge weld with it last night after smashing it in to little pieces. it amazing the ammount of heat you can get from coal compared to charcoal, I couldn't get welding heat in my side blast forge with charcoal, if you pumped it hard enough to get a yellow heat the charcoal just went flying out ahaha

South west wales don't mind going 50+ miles to get it if there's some where that sells it in 25-50kg bags or something, the only problem i had was the large size of the lumps made it hard to make a cave in the middle of the fire, should you be able to take the piece in and out with out it pushing past the coals? people say you have to make a "cave" and an entrance to it... first time using coal, only used charcoal before and I've never done forge welding, I'm sure I'll get it next time, or the time after, or something ahaha.
I'd like to get some good forging grade coal/coke though in beans not big lumps.

Thanks for the reply,
Rune

Hey all,

Haven't posted here in awhile...

I'm after some advise on coal, whats the best stuff to get? I've been trying to do some forge welding, and i just can't get it to work.. I've been using borax that i dried in the oven for a couple of hours, it does get a glossy look, but i can't get the cave type of fire every one talks about, the only coal i can find is what the guy called "soft coal" looks right and seems to coke (it goes porous and the forge pretty much stops smoking) but it's pretty big lumps, the coal merchant had no idea what i was talking about when i asked for bituminous coal, or forging coal, or blacksmiths coal.....

any advice on finding good coal for forge welding would be much appreciated, I'm starting to think about making a gas forge....

Thanks a lot everyone,
Rune.

Might take you up on that one when i get the chance.
I found an old advert for B.S Massey hammers the other day in an engineering year book from 1924, just picked it up and B.S Massey was on the first page, the hammer looks pretty close to the current anyang hammers.

awesome looking set up dale, the anyang does look very good, I'd like to go and try one at some point.

Ah quite a huge price now then, ah well.

Bipolarandy, Yeah, i've seen the tyre hammers, do you know how they vary the speed? they don't seem to have a clutch at all.

Kasper, good to know i was shocked by how small the 15kg is for a hammer of it's power, it's only about 3 feet tall! how long have you had it? have you had any reliability problems with it at all?

Hi Ragnarok, yes there are powerhammers for sale in the UK, I have just sold my Blacker, and know of others including Little Giant, Hercules and Goliath that have also been on sale, recently there was a Pattinson on ebay that looked a good deal, but did not sell. The Buy it now price was

looks like a nice one, I was thinking of making one similar to a little giant, the hard bit would probably be the arm and spring thing, and getting a lump of steel for the anvil, still the anyang is looking like a good option.

Yeah it does look like a great hammer, as long as it doesn't go wrong like most chinese stuff ahaha.

i've have thought about making one and seen the ones people have made, but they all seem a bit light weight to me, i think I'd probably build one using 1" plate and making it look rather like a little giant, however that would probably end up costing about the same as an anyang C41-15, something to think about though if i can't find a good used one.

Thanks I'll check them out :)

Hey all, I'm new here it seem to be a great forum.
anyway I'm just wondering if any of you know if it's posable to find old Little Giant 25lb (or similar sized british) power hammers in the UK at all, and around how much they'd be selling for if it was posable, as I'm look for a small power hammer for making folded damascus steel and axe heads, I've seen the anyang C41-15 which is priced at around